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Definition of fretful in English: fretfuladjective ˈfrɛtf(ə)lˈfrɛtfʊlˈfrɛtfəl Feeling or expressing distress or irritation. 苦恼的；烦躁的；恼怒的 the baby was crying with a fretful whimper 婴儿在烦躁不安地呜咽着。 Example sentencesExamples - It was not a message we ever heard from Shakespeare, who, increasingly fretful about the fate of kings, retreated into the ruminations of King Lear and a litigious retirement.
- From the time he returned he was a man in a hurry, fretful, ambitious and, no doubt as his wife found, difficult to live with.
- Inspired, a fretful child proclaims, ‘I don't like war!’
- Now, I've seen the chapter in question and can assure my fretful reader that this is typical Kreeftian whimsy.
- I was a bit fretful in the back of the big silver car that had been sent to pick me up.
- Activists and candidates, fretful about the coming general election, understandably want a quick fix.
- And as for the public library who could dream of taking a fretful infant in there?
- Passengers once glad to stand in line grow fretful as officials frisk grandmas' bags for tweezers.
- Lanegan's personal narrative, the euphoric highs and ravaged lows of the junkie, the fretful pining of the love incompetent and the poetic musings of the maverick outsider, are poignantly realised.
- Conventional wisdom says that a defendant should look engaged but not fretful, confident but not cocky.
- I saw the incomplete circle, lit up in the darkness of the mill's eaves, the pillars looking as peaceful as ancient standing stones despite the fretful, angry slogans they were covered in.
- When we did arrive on the ground, I thankfully handed J.R. his fretful daughter, went to claim my luggage and found that my favourite overnight dressing case was missing.
- For fretful parents, they were a hangout for hooligans cutting class to play Pac-Man, losing hours and quarters that could be spent in the fresh air and wholesome sunshine.
- Perhaps they could sell a book about it to guilty, fretful western mothers.
- Nolan has found his groove as a vocalist and his breathy, fretful, at times desperate vocals, are effectively emotive without being maudlin.
- When he spoke, his voice, though fretful and agitated, was deep and noble.
- A traumatised soldier of the American Civil War deserts to get home to his fretful wife.
- They may refuse their feeds and become fretful with a shrill cry when handled.
- A common first reaction to having made a mistake is to become upset, to become fretful or angry about it, or if it is a serious mistake to become deeply burdened and even depressed.
- Most of Saturday I was distracted and fretful, wracking my brains about what I could do when I would be forced to disappear from Rob's life for an entire month.
Synonyms distressed, upset, miserable, unsettled, uneasy, ill at ease, uncomfortable, agitated, distraught, overwrought, wrought up, worked up, tense, stressed, restive, fidgety irritable, cross, crabbed, fractious, peevish, petulant, out of sorts, bad-tempered, ill-natured, edgy, irascible, grumpy, crotchety, touchy, captious, testy, tetchy querulous, complaining, grumbling, whining North American cranky informal het up, uptight, twitchy, rattled, crabby dated overstrung, unquiet
Definition of fretful in US English: fretfuladjectiveˈfretfəlˈfrɛtfəl Feeling or expressing distress or irritation. 苦恼的；烦躁的；恼怒的 the baby was crying with a fretful whimper 婴儿在烦躁不安地呜咽着。 Example sentencesExamples - Most of Saturday I was distracted and fretful, wracking my brains about what I could do when I would be forced to disappear from Rob's life for an entire month.
- For fretful parents, they were a hangout for hooligans cutting class to play Pac-Man, losing hours and quarters that could be spent in the fresh air and wholesome sunshine.
- I saw the incomplete circle, lit up in the darkness of the mill's eaves, the pillars looking as peaceful as ancient standing stones despite the fretful, angry slogans they were covered in.
- Lanegan's personal narrative, the euphoric highs and ravaged lows of the junkie, the fretful pining of the love incompetent and the poetic musings of the maverick outsider, are poignantly realised.
- From the time he returned he was a man in a hurry, fretful, ambitious and, no doubt as his wife found, difficult to live with.
- Conventional wisdom says that a defendant should look engaged but not fretful, confident but not cocky.
- Nolan has found his groove as a vocalist and his breathy, fretful, at times desperate vocals, are effectively emotive without being maudlin.
- It was not a message we ever heard from Shakespeare, who, increasingly fretful about the fate of kings, retreated into the ruminations of King Lear and a litigious retirement.
- They may refuse their feeds and become fretful with a shrill cry when handled.
- Perhaps they could sell a book about it to guilty, fretful western mothers.
- Activists and candidates, fretful about the coming general election, understandably want a quick fix.
- A common first reaction to having made a mistake is to become upset, to become fretful or angry about it, or if it is a serious mistake to become deeply burdened and even depressed.
- Inspired, a fretful child proclaims, ‘I don't like war!’
- When we did arrive on the ground, I thankfully handed J.R. his fretful daughter, went to claim my luggage and found that my favourite overnight dressing case was missing.
- Passengers once glad to stand in line grow fretful as officials frisk grandmas' bags for tweezers.
- And as for the public library who could dream of taking a fretful infant in there?
- A traumatised soldier of the American Civil War deserts to get home to his fretful wife.
- I was a bit fretful in the back of the big silver car that had been sent to pick me up.
- When he spoke, his voice, though fretful and agitated, was deep and noble.
- Now, I've seen the chapter in question and can assure my fretful reader that this is typical Kreeftian whimsy.
Synonyms distressed, upset, miserable, unsettled, uneasy, ill at ease, uncomfortable, agitated, distraught, overwrought, wrought up, worked up, tense, stressed, restive, fidgety
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